Well I was fine until I got a good deal on flesh eater courts and an entire war machine army. But I keep a list on my cork board. The more I see crossed off, the more I feel empowered.

I was working my way through the last of my models last week when I made the mistake of visiting Amazon. "Ooh! Allarielle for only $108!"

Like a mad-man, I decided to start Skaven as i'd said elsewhere, and as I am incapable of doing anything half way, I immediately traded for the Skaven half of three Dawn-Spire/Isle of Blood sets, as well as buying a mountain of Storm Vermin, Storm Fiends, Artillery, Doomwheels, etc...

So I am trying REALLY hard not to think about the volume of stuff I now need to turn out. I will say, I am debating regressing from washes, etc... to my old "dip" method which I used way back when I had to paint up 100+ Termgants, etc... for 40k. I'm think my dirty dirty Clan Rats MIGHT be appropriate for the old, rough, but decent quick paint-job, and dunk in Min-Wax trick. :-p

I did start in earnest though. This week I started and am about 90% done with two Warlocks, two Engineers, and all of the Weapon Teams (six Warpfire, six Poison Wind Mortarts).

Dipping is fine. Im trying to learn to become a really good painter. But I dipped most of my ghouls because painting 15 isnt fun. I want able to finish them in hours.
Just make sure you use some technicals. Maybe over the blades put some typhus corrosion and drybrush some ryza rust.
Take some Ryza Rust, make a wash out of it, put on one some helms and shields. Same with the Oxides. and a Little blood for the blood god will go along way

Finished off 3 more dudes for my Gorechosen Warhorde!

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dipping is fine. Im trying to learn to become a really good painter. But I dipped most of my ghouls because painting 15 isnt fun. I want able to finish them in hours.
Just make sure you use some technicals. Maybe over the blades put some typhus corrosion and drybrush some ryza rust.
Take some Ryza Rust, make a wash out of it, put on one some helms and shields. Same with the Oxides. and a Little blood for the blood god will go along way

Well, i'm going to paint them properly, so I suppose i'm more like half-dipping. I'll use that to handle most of my washing, etc... but i'll get decent basecoats on it first.

Also, i'm weirdly fond of the Nurgle Rot technical paint, so i'll probably find some use for it somewhere in there too. :-p

Well the Black Knights are done until I can be asked to do a matt Varnish on them(Maybe around Sun) and put the BFTBG paint on them and the baseing
I literally have manfredd left for my AOS. Thats it, After that we shall see.
My hope of being able to buy a model, build, then paint it, then move onto my next project will be realize.

Most recent addition to the FEC army:





Soon to get a ghoul king rider!

That is astoundingly pretty. Well done!

Of course it's pretty, that's the glorious and impeccable mount of one the great kings of the realms whose shining presence makes all better. Care for some red wine, friend?

(Relevant to that )
http://objectivesecured.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/bog-sylvaneth-tainted.html?m=1

And more cool model designs I found on Reddit. 
https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/63ji7l/unicorn_chaos_chariot_cc/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/636h2w/start_of_my_khorne_iron_horde/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/632waj/chaos_hinterlands_warband_ready_for_action/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/6322yi/my_bastiladon_star_lasers_incoming/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/61l3uz/you_can_join_if_you_want_to_you_can_bring_your/

So I've more or less finished assembly of a Kharadron frigate and 50 arkanaut company. The next task to to finish making molds for the skyhook weapon option so I can make the copies I need to fully equip them. I have to say though there is an astonishing amount of detail in the frigate kit, stuff like a hinge where a portion of the guard rail opens up or a pressure valve next to the navigator is all over the place, in a good way. Though it bothers me a bit that the frigate seems about 20% too small for the crew to move around properly.

I like the color scheme Elmir. Nice contrast. It's the best part of the paint job. I wouldn't have expected it to be so colorful.

I don't think I posted my Gaunt Summoner in this thread, finished a month ago:

Had a relatively productive long weekend - managed to finish off my Vanguard Chamber:





As well as a Basilisk from Forge World:



A Dreadstone Blight:



And a little something for Wizards:

You've made good use of that 3 day weekend. The Vanguard chamber is great IMO, it's too bad the combined Dracoth-Gryph formation can't be used in normal games. Well done either way Matt!

Long time word-poster... first time pic-poster!

I've been acting as DM for a group of friends of mine as we embark upon a DnD campaign... I've found its given me a lot of scope to buy and paint a wide variety of models to include in our sessions. Haven't been forced into collecting a certain faction or alliance, its been very enjoyable I must say!
Have some more stuff I might post soon.

**Ok for some reason the attachments aren't uploading with this post... halp?**

Got done with Mannfredd,
Now I just need to do his dread abyssal. But I gotta get the Black oil paint.

Another of my pretties. I finished this guy probably 6 or so months ago... and then to my horror came on here and found I'd basically unknowingly copied Bottle's scheme almost color for color!

Count as Harbinger of Decay for my Rotbringers AoS army. The current model is kinda of horrendous. I view nurgle as bloated and swollen, not starving and emaciated. I understand that point of view.. its just not for me.

So I had the idea of a plague drone centaur type of thing. The first picture shows the posture. I later removed the long tongue, added a mouth from the Maggorth lords kit, with a small portion of the other tongue variant. I think I'm going to model a small sword or knife being wielded by the tongue. Next I went about crafting the torso. I starting working on it and realized I was headed towards a slim and trim/ripped harbinger. Definetley going to work on making him have a gut, bloated and gross. Maybe using one of the non armored blightkings torso and working it in with greenstuff.

Those both look good, alex87! i've always liked that undead guy.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dipping is fine. Im trying to learn to become a really good painter. But I dipped most of my ghouls because painting 15 isnt fun. I want able to finish them in hours.
Just make sure you use some technicals. Maybe over the blades put some typhus corrosion and drybrush some ryza rust.
Take some Ryza Rust, make a wash out of it, put on one some helms and shields. Same with the Oxides. and a Little blood for the blood god will go along way

Well, i'm going to paint them properly, so I suppose i'm more like half-dipping. I'll use that to handle most of my washing, etc... but i'll get decent basecoats on it first.

Also, i'm weirdly fond of the Nurgle Rot technical paint, so i'll probably find some use for it somewhere in there too. :-p

Ahh, basically what i do for my IG LOL

 amazingturtles wrote:
Those both look good, alex87! i've always liked that undead guy.

Thanks man, I have to say its one of my favorite GW sculpts! Also his story arc that I created for him when I introduced him into our DnD campaign was actually really cool as well, so ive always had sentimental spot for him since.

More work on Mannfredd tonight, nothing special,
Airbrush, dry brushed, Airbrushed some more and a little bit more work and its done.

I painted my 2000pt, 116 model Tzeentch army in time for Broadside Bash this past week

Added bonus was that I won first! First GT win, and first time I've had a full army painted and BASED. Felt looked, looked better! Need to go back and do more detail work now though. Some of the paint jobs were DEFINITELY rushed(Sorry brimstones!), and both my Lords of Change need a hit with an airbrush

Mannfredd is almost done.
Just need the chestpiece and that is it

First off Matt, awesome job as usual. Now I don't really care for Stormcast Eternals. One reason is I just can't paint mine in a good job. Don't care for all gold but nothing I tired worked. BUT...

MongooseMatt wrote:

This pic is so full of awesome. I never cared for them but after seeing this pic, when I get back into Age of Sigmar, I might have to start collecting them or at least just these units. What are these units called? Just love the poses and arrangement you have done that I want these now.

They're the Vanguard Palladors, which suit the knight in plate armour the best IMO. Brown Gryphs are probably the best colour for them too, as the flashier colours (turquoise etc) are a bit of an eyesore. Going for a chivalry theme like jousters sounds quite awesome actually.

A picture one of my friends took with a better camera from one of our DnD sessions of my Bloodstoker. Have picked out a few more details and cleaned the basing up since photo was taken...

Mannfredd is done, and with that, my AOS projects for the time being
For the Record, since the beggining of April I had these to do
15 ghouls
9 Crypt Horrors
Terrorgeist
Mournghul
5 Black Knights
AND MAnnfredd
and my AOS army comes to a close for a bit, until I can afford to buy another Start Collecting & Ghoul Box....
And my Friends NAgash

The pants and the stitching came out really clear and well on the bloodstoker, alex87! it's personally one of my least favorite models but i really like how you've done him up.

 amazingturtles wrote:
The pants and the stitching came out really clear and well on the bloodstoker, alex87! it's personally one of my least favorite models but i really like how you've done him up.

Thanks man. Picked out the stitching on the pants with a dark brown to add some detail and also fixed the mould-line under his chin that had collected the Agrax Earthshade wash I used on the skin.
Agree re model quality. Not my favorite sculpt but I used this guy as a demented surgeon-turned-psychopath in my DnD campaign and had a ton of fun with that story arc, so he earns some sentimental points in my book.

Ready for going out onto Warhammer Live this Wednesday to play some AoS Skirmish, I converted and painted 3 handgunners to be from the dark and polluted city of Greywater Fastness! (Plus a loyal Gryph-Hound)




The conversions are Freeguild Archer bodies, Freeguild Handgunner arms, Wildwood Ranger heads, and backpacks made from Outrider bits. Really happy with the conversions, not too sure I pulled off the dark blue coats effectively.

This just makes up a small part of the warband, which is as follows:



If you're interested in AoS Skirmish, make sure you tune into Warhammer Live this Wednesday at 6PM (ish)!

There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Love that gryph-hound paint job, buddy . Solid painting all round!

Incredible gryph-hound. Best of luck on Wednesday!

 Bottle wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Yeah, those mushrooms are pretty cool. If you want to make bases more interesting without changing them too much, try playing with the elevation by glueing pieces of sprue or rocks down before covering them with sand or texture paint. Then continue as normal.

Sorry if it sounds like im lecturing, basing is something I really love (and something im quite good at, if I do say so myself)

That's good advice, thanks! You can see on the more recent ones (the 3 riflemen and Gryph Hound) that I've started to experiment with slate for some to stand on as well as different grass colours - unfortunately I don't think my Order stuff is ever going to match up to my Chaos basing (snow) or my 40k basing (cracked earth, chipped stone and techno-junk).

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

 Bottle wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
There is literally nothing I can see there that needs improvement, except maybe the bases

haha, yes my basing is always a bit marmite for people with how plain it is! I have way too many models in my Order army now to consider radically changing it though.... (Plus, Ninth loves it). :-P

Yeah, those mushrooms are pretty cool. If you want to make bases more interesting without changing them too much, try playing with the elevation by glueing pieces of sprue or rocks down before covering them with sand or texture paint. Then continue as normal.

Sorry if it sounds like im lecturing, basing is something I really love (and something im quite good at, if I do say so myself)

How DARE you contest the quality of Bottle's miniatures! I shocked, SHOCKED, that someone would have the audacity to criticise such marvelous works of art! The only possible complaint that could be made on a remotely rational level is that the feet and legs of those gun-hobo-whatevers are obstructing the view.







sarcasm

Feel like I am letting the side down - but I did manage to do some Centigors and Ungors this week!

I just finished a megaboss up today. Went with an albino look, though the red glazes in the recesses get bit too saturated in my pictures.

I Converted and painted a Questing Knight recently I changed the head to make him more like the Knights Of Lothric in Dark Souls 3, now seeing AOS skirmish is coming out and I rushed out and preordered it I'm thinking of making a warband full of guys inspired by the souls series to go with him.


I also finished a Lord Relictor for my Astral Vindicators Stormhost.

Where did you get that helmet? It looks awesome!

It's actually impressive how cooler the stormcast look when you use actual knight helms. Looks less creepy as well

Ruins of Weathertop

Nice work! I like the diversity in plants/fungus sprouting up, it gives it a more immersive feel.

thanks, i was pretty happy with how it came out

Status update on my edgetastic Sylvaneth: progress was smooth and I'm ready to start priming. I have this lingering concern because for the first time in a long time I'm going to be using the terrain paints as intended and not slathering it on before priming. As a consequence they look super bare right now and I constantly have to remind myself that they'll look less busy up top once the bases are painted covered with bushes, mounds of dirt, and water effects. But it's hard.

Anyway, here are some pictures I took while packing them for their exciting field trip to the hobby store, where I can prime them and catch up on our league.

I got to see Drycha fully built on launch day and decided I wanted her to look distinct. Originally it was just going to be a re-pose, then it was a head-swap to differentiate it from the other unpainted drycha that was seeing play in the store (Dry-chan vs Drycha-cha iirc) and I got to thinking I could fill in some of the hornets' nests covering her body to make it look more like a real one that's only partially slouched off. But after implementing it I decided I'd rather have it all look like gnarled bark. Her armour is held on with blue-tac right now, if it looks a little bulkier than it should.


I got the spite revenants at the same time as Drycha, at the time I picked them over tree-revenants due to their rules and there was a real sense that you had to pick one of them and commit. Some odd effect of them being the same kit and similar names despite this very different roles. The idea was they'd accompany Drycha and the dryads and together act as a big nasty tarpit while my wild riders picked off the real nasty stuff. In practice people would just avoid attacking whatever unit I'd casted shield of thorns on in lieu of everything else,they ended up evolving into a dryad tarpit with drycha tackling a big blob by herself and the spites positioning themselves somewhere to maximize their spooky terrain effect. I suppose their theme is 'exile is no excuse not to take care of your hair.'


Inversely, the Kurnoth Hunters come from my 'great ideas stolen from the internet' collection. I spent so much time gradually accepting the way Kurnoth's look that I finally stopped worrying about it and went looking for painting advice for them, only to be immediately blown away by amazing conversion work done by someone for their all-revenant themed army. Though I stole the idea, I ended up paying enough in blood trying to re-engineer it, let me tell you...


The theme for the tree-revenants is 'oh no, you used all your tree revenant parts for other projects!'

... Actually because I had used the hair for Drycha and the spites I had it in my head to try something different with them from the get-go. A restless dead theme gelled well with both my army's backstory and generally what tree-revenants are. I asked around the store for what units would be suited to the way they behave on the field and they all said 'skirmishers'. Then, later, patiently, they explained to the Sigmar baby that I am what skirmishers were in fantasy and what units were skirmishers.


My branchwych and Mistweaver Saih. The former is meant to bridge the sylvaneth look and the centaur theme of my wood elf army. I... may redo her at a later date, but I'll can't seem to find an angle where she looks good in a picture. She's remarkably unphotogenic. The mistweaver is a case study in how to fix a badly executed idea with liberal application of green stuff.


And another shot of my twisted treelord ancient. I realized later that I never took a picture of his face dead-on. Wearing the Durthu face like a mask modifies the treelord's facial profile in a really cool way, I feel.


I also turned the wildwood trees into little stumps that will have smaller magnetic tree branches growing out of them, used the excess tree parts to wood-up my bale wind vortex. But I forgot to take a picture of it.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
... only to be immediately blown away by amazing conversion work done by someone for their all-revenant themed army.

Corai's maybe?

Sylvaneth done well is one of the coolest themes that Age of Stuff has to offer. Bravo on really cranking it, all the spooky tree people are legit af

- Salvage

Awesome! I worked pretty hard to convert all my Sylvaneth into spooky shambling skeleton trees and put a few ghosts on Drycha. Gave the whole army a Death feel to it. I'll have to post better pictures of them now that I got a better camera.

Nice sylvaneth conversions there!

I just did me a Bonegrinder Giant!





The other Gargants a feeling a bit small!

Wow. I didn't know they were that big. Awesome work (as always).

what emberlord said.... holy cow.
both the size and painting are wow...
nice work.

That guy is tall. I love that you did the rags stiched together in such a variety of colors, makes me think of the old empire uniforms.

A verminlord Corrupter I've been working on. It's going to go with an army of plague monks, but will also eventually get a pair of wings to function as a 40k substitute beastie.

I mean... that's pretty scary.

Though I would adjust the bell to convey a sense of gravity/motion...

From my First Skirmish, night goblins are weak but fun as hell for sure, great when you have tons of bodies vs 3 model armies.

3 Freeguild Swordsmen as a mini project ready for a tournament this Saturday. I'm going to push the unit to 40 over the summer, it's at 30+ now. :-)

Three stout gentlemen they are. The mustache on that head is one of my favorite things.

Still not finished, but painting is getting there, bell looks better, and bonus plague furnace! Sorry about the lighting, I'll probably update them tomorrow for better quality.

Nothing major, just a hero for my planned nurgle warband.

Nice conversion there! A good example that sometimes less is more.

Cheers!

And he's done!

I've finally started to make a move with my Overlords, which you can see here. It's very early days yet but I'm hoping to make them worthy of the high standards seen here in this thread.

Finished up my counts-as Screaming Skull Catapult for my Death army:











If you're wondering why it's covered in all these strange, rat-like scribblings, know that this mighty war machine was shamelessly stolen from the Kingdom of the Broken Chains' armoury by the insidious Skaven not long after the Kingdom's undead inhabitants slipped into their centuries-long slumber. After his re-awakening in the present era, the King set to reclaim all that once belonged to him, and thus hunted down the descendants of the Skaven thieves, taking back his war machines after a short but unnervingly brutal skirmish.

It was most definitely not a consequence of my haste to get this model finished.

Obviously.



Jokes aside, I had a lot of fun painting this thing, although it was a bit more difficult than I had anticipated. Originally, I was going to stick it on a square base to match the rest of the army, but it just looked so much better on the oval base it came with, so I went with that one instead

That is an awesome rendition of my favourite AoS unit (I have been known to run 5+ of them in small games) Great work!

I too am working on a Kharadron army, did some minor conversion work on my skyvessels to show battle damage & repairs. This is from the Ironclad (there is a crewman who goes on the end of the support and will be repairing the damage, with the improvised blast shield offering him some protection). The detail is a bit fuzzy because phone camera, but the green stuff around the edges of the blast shield 'base' is sculpted to look like welding.

I've been working on these since right before their battletome was released, but I've finally (just about) finished my Mournfang Riders:




All that's left is snow on the base, which I'll do after the thundertusk and stonehorn.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I too am working on a Kharadron army, did some minor conversion work on my skyvessels to show battle damage & repairs. This is from the Ironclad (there is a crewman who goes on the end of the support and will be repairing the damage, with the improvised blast shield offering him some protection). The detail is a bit fuzzy because phone camera, but the green stuff around the edges of the blast shield 'base' is sculpted to look like welding.

Oooh, looks promising. As for my progress on the overlord fleet that I've started working on since late may, most of the assembly is already done, missing a ship or two but most of the crew is accounted for. Only the color scheme is amiss, but I was thinking of olive jumpsuits, with brass armor similar to Barak-zilfin

Laughatdo0m wrote:
I've been working on these since right before their battletome was released, but I've finally (just about) finished my Mournfang Riders:

Spoiler:

All that's left is snow on the base, which I'll do after the thundertusk and stonehorn.

Very nice.

Recently finished up my warherd for my female beastman army.

Doom Bull(Cow)


Bullgors with axes and shields



Bullgors with great axes


Cygor


Ghorgon

Sweet army conversion! The cygor takes the cake for me, the bag with the stones alongside the other conversions really pushes the model above the original kit.

Fully agreed, those are fantastic!

That's the kind of evil army you can be happy being crushed by.

Been working on some dungeon tiles and got these skeletons done in a couple of hours for skirmish.

Nice! i like the rusty shield in the center a lot.

Been working on my Sylvaneth army, the Seelie Court. I'm going for a Spring them. Here's a quick sample of what I've done so far:



Treelord Ancient



A simple Branchwraith conversion kitbashed from a Branchwych and some Spite Revenant bits.

So I've got a few league games under my belt (We've moved into the tournament stage now.) and I'm comfortable again with AoS in general and the way this army plays in particular. Some things I agonized about picking ended up being shockingly effective, to the point where I don't think I'll take the treelord ancient as anything other than this (so far) unkillable tank build that's served me so well.

Beyond that, I finally got them primed. I decided to try a zenithal progression from black to grey to white using the spray cans. And overall I'm satisfied with the results, though they're a bit inconsistent between the smaller models I did in a larger batch and the larger models that got more individual attention. It's a good starting point though, and I'll be careful to keep my paints thin.











I'm more and more convinced I want to do the branchwych again. That said, propping her up on a balewind vortex with a silverwood circlet has been amazing. This magic rock concert has been neutering dangerous threats while they've been in combat with my dryads line, blocked enemies from getting to objectives, and, memorably, once wiped out an entire trebuchet crew after it almost killed her before she got to put it up. I kind of expect they'll increase its points because holy gak, but don't ever let them change it's effects.

Deathlords!

Those Deathlords are something out of this world… such good paintjobs on these.

Still keeping my hand in with AoS! I've properly started my Freeguild force now - not as good as Bottle's (whose is, eh?), but they stand ready to defend Sigmar's cities...



And a General to lead them:



Just got to work on a large unit of Guard, a small unit of Greatswords, then adding some Ironweld goodness in the shape of a Volley Gun and Steam Tank...

Yeah I have to say it isnt quite up to Bottle quality. The highlighting of the sand isnt quite as distinct and the only adornment is grass tufts as opposed to a mix of grass, mushrooms, stones, etc. And it suffers from the same issue of the scarecrows or clowns or humanoids or whatever on top obscuring the view.

I know you were joking but the image of gun-armed scarecrows set-up as a deadly decoy by the Ironweld is a epic image.

Baron Klatz wrote:
I know you were joking but the image of gun-armed scarecrows set-up as a deadly decoy by the Ironweld is a epic image.

Woodenweld Arsenal.

Whelp, now I got a future project for my boxes of handgunners and wanderer nature bits.

Not sure if their background is they're rebels from Greywater siding with the angry Sylvaneth or Ironwelders using slain Sylvies as "Woodenweld troops".


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Sketched the concept of Woodenweld.


@Captain Joystick, forgot to say it earlier but I absolutely love those Sylvaneth!

The Bloody Queen. Character for Cassius graphic novel and a khorne chaos lord.,

Here's some of my long-languishing Stormcast Eternals, for some skirmish games. I think it's pretty funny how well my force and MongooseMatt's would look as allies!

Oh, i really like them with those heads. and the green is very good.

Thanks! Every model in my force (only 9-strong right now) has a bare head, other than a lone Prosecutor which is stock, and a Lord Relictor that has a Retributor head which will have the facemask painted flesh to look like it's an open-faced helm. Tried to have each face fit with the model's posture, to give them all a unique character.

It's probably a bit of a slap in the face to those who hate that Space Marine sergeants always end up in combat without a helmet, lol.

I never see the fuss about not wearing helmets. You're talking about a universe with magic and tearing holes in space and you want to focus on why Sergeant #57 isn't wearing a helmet? More character can be portrayed in a face than any helmet could.

I finished assembling another 10 Bloodreavers:

https://imgur.com/gallery/hfeEd

These are the first of the multipart ones I've assembled, having just dealt with the easy fit versions before. I've given them meatripper axes and it's my intention to make this a full unit of 40. The overall plan is to have 3 units of 40 (two with reaver blades and this one with axes). With light troops like this you either go big or go home.

EDIT: I completely forgot that photobucket decided to be total donkey-caves and charge for what was once free so I've changed that link.

Here's a couple of the forces I am pulling off the shelves to finish for some skirmish games. The first are my Orcs; I've had a love affair with orcs for a long time now, I don't really know why, maybe it's all the green? I'm particularly fond of the boyz with bows, they are the monopose plastics from the Warhammer starter about 12 years ago? Also my warboss is the leader from the old metal Regiments of Renown crossbow regiment, bought with a sprue of the Arrer Boyz and the dual-choppa boyz back when GW had a bitz section of their online store. As I said, this warband has been in progress for a pretty long time!




The other warband are my latest acquisition of Skaven from the Gencon of last year and the year before. There's this awesome seller there that has about 50 Rubbermaid tubs of single miniatures to sift through, I don't think any model in this force cost me more than $1.50, other than the Warlord and Rat Ogre which ran about $5 each. (The Grey Seer doesn't count, that was bought as the full blister for me by my wife for last Christmas.)

Bringing the brutal Orruk Megaboss into the dream environment for an orruk; as a gorechosen. More pics and fluff about how an orruk ends up as a gorechosen champion here: https://mandollies.com/2017/07/16/gorechosen-orruk-megaboss/

"Never enuff' dakka? No ya git! Never enuff' BLOOD!"

Well done! That's seriously intimidating.

Also, bravo to every model-post before this one as well. You guys are amazing!

Scary warband no doubt.

 Illumini wrote:
Bringing the brutal Orruk Megaboss into the dream environment for an orruk; as a gorechosen. More pics and fluff about how an orruk ends up as a gorechosen champion here: https://mandollies.com/2017/07/16/gorechosen-orruk-megaboss/

He looks awesome!

Have you created custom rules to use him in Gorechosen?

Thanks guys

@Bottle: Not yet, but it is coming soon. Will leave a post here when I have made the character card.

Really liking the fiery glow and the lava bases on those.

These are the first things I've painted specifically for Age of Sigmar (as opposed to finishing the army I was halfway through when AoS came out); the Tzeentchian models from Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, which will be getting their first outing in a three-player Age of Sigmar Skirmish campaign at Warhammer World next Wednesday.


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Made big progress on a replacement branchwych:



Made entirely with leftover parts and kitbash fodder left over from other projects.

Looking at it the next day, I see there's still some work to do on the neck, and will probably work the viney, root motif there too.

Looks awesome.

I want one.

No, I need one.

Nice conversion there!

I've been working on Terrain for my AOS table, I picked up some Woodland Scenic brand 5-7" deciduous tree armatures , along with their sticky tac, and a set of fall foliage and some traditional green foliage

So far I have created 6 trees, I attached a 1" wide washer under the base of each one to give it weight and stability.

I'm also finishing painting my High Elves as well as getting ready to buy the last units for my wive's Wanderer's army.

When I am home from work, I'll upload some images of the trees.

Normally my armies have a good amount of conversion work, but for my Kharadrons I'm going to focus on some really cool base work. While of course they will never live up to the shocking majesty that is Bottle's bases, I'm hoping they will at least look OK. With that goal in mind I started work on basing my Endrinrigger unit champion:





The terrain will have a monsoon-desert-jungle sort of thing so models will often be cutting through vegetation that has burst up from the ground. This should give me plenty of options for suspending the models without needing to use clear plastic.

Looks great ninth! Can't wait to see them painted!

Really clever alternative flying base work there! I like that a lot!

I've also got some Overlords to present, but they're not quite as impressively modelled.

Thanks!

Nice work on those thunderers, the unit looks good with all rifles (too bad the current point structure means they don't get used ).

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
These are the first things I've painted specifically for Age of Sigmar (as opposed to finishing the army I was halfway through when AoS came out); the Tzeentchian models from Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, which will be getting their first outing in a three-player Age of Sigmar Skirmish campaign at Warhammer World next Wednesday.

They turned out great! especially the familiars, i love those guys.

Hi everyone,

My painting mojo has gone a bit westwards of late, and the new 40k has not helped the Age of Sigmar painting pile either. However, this weekend I got my mojo back, and finished off my Freeguild!

This is the little crop that got completed - already have 24 Handgunners, a couple of Wizards, and a General done and dusted for these guys.



Had to add a bit of the Ironweld Arsenal, of course:


And a Steam Tank!

Fantastic Matt! Love the Green and White.

Honestly Matt if you did a Twitch Stream I bet you would get a LOT of viewers. With your consistently good and insanely fast output I would certainly tune in to see how the hell you do it! In short: please film yourself painting minis Brush Lickers United is a great Community on Twitch which most painters belong to, they have an FB Group as well.

 Bottle wrote:
Fantastic Matt! Love the Green and White.

Got the idea straight from the City of Secrets novel!

 Mymearan wrote:
Honestly Matt if you did a Twitch Stream I bet you would get a LOT of viewers. With your consistently good and insanely fast output I would certainly tune in to see how the hell you do it! In short: please film yourself painting minis Brush Lickers United is a great Community on Twitch which most painters belong to, they have an FB Group as well.

Hmm, hadn't thought of that. Can see some issues straight away, not least that you would be shocked if you saw the poor lighting I paint under - as weird as it sounds, I paint a lot by touch

@ NinthMusketeer

Thanks! Hopefully I'll not mess up their paint job when I get around to it.

@ MongooseMatt

Awesome army!

After seven games at Warhammer World last weekend, it turns out that while you can make a Skirmish force from the contents of Silver Tower, it's not a very good one. The Gaunt Summoner or a Pink Horror can pick off a few Stormcast with Arcane Bolt, but then the daemons and Tzaangors get mashed to a pulp by angry hammers. Back to the High Elves, I think.

An impulsive black coach conversion after reading about the changes to it in gbh2.



Took me about 1H to clip, saw and glue the whole thing. I had no use for the mortis in a pure nighthaunt army anyway.
Prolly not the first to make this style of BC conversion but it atleast makes the model look uptodate while we wait for GW to make a new kit.

Nice. I agree that the basic black coach is... Ehm... Lets say lackluster.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
Took me about 1H to clip, saw and glue the whole thing. I had no use for the mortis in a pure nighthaunt army anyway.
Prolly not the first to make this style of BC conversion but it atleast makes the model look uptodate while we wait for GW to make a new kit.

Very nice-- please post photos once it's been painted!

Finished a 70 Renown Bloodbound Skirmish warband ready for a tournament event in September. I absolutely love these models so I am really happy to have them all painted up at last. (I finished the Slaughterpriest almost one year ago!)

Bottle, I am in awe of your awesome Bloodbound painting skills! They're a real inspiration for me!

I've just got more Overlords to show, including my first conversion with them (a simple head swap). I hope to start painting one day!

Thanks FWC! :-)

Looking forward to seeing your KO getting painted. I am currently working on 3 Endrinriggers which will get added into my mixed Order army. :-)

Well done Bottle they look great, the red and bronze are a fantastic shade and look good together

Thanks Madmatt! I'm trying to speed up my painting so almost everything on the model is 1 base coat layer, 1 wash layer, 2 edge highlights (so no reapplying the base after the wash, and no "two thin coats").

 Bottle wrote:
Thanks Madmatt! I'm trying to speed up my painting so almost everything on the model is 1 base coat layer, 1 wash layer, 2 edge highlights (so no reapplying the base after the wash, and no "two thin coats").

Tisk tisk, what would Duncan say?

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Thanks Madmatt! I'm trying to speed up my painting so almost everything on the model is 1 base coat layer, 1 wash layer, 2 edge highlights (so no reapplying the base after the wash, and no "two thin coats").

Tisk tisk, what would Duncan say?

Haha, the hairs on the back of his neck will have stood up as soon as I posted that. A disturbance in the force :-p

So this guy is a Keeper of Secrets conversion I finished over a year ago and half painted several months back. It long ago hit the point of me just wanting it to be done so I did a quick finish. Even though the paint job isn't up to what I originally intended I'm very happy to have it done.

Looks great Ninth! Really cool conversion. If you could get a bit more colour on the base somehow as its a little dark. Maybe a very soft drybrush of a light grey?

Thanks!

The color correction on the photo makes the base look darker than it actually is, basically imagine an extra drybrush of light grey.

What I've nearly fully finished for my Kharadron Overlords. The warplock bronze on the armor is going to be drybrushed lightly in a copper color and the rest will be actually shaded and highlighted as appropriate. I simply only had a few busy days to finish these.

Ran these guys in skirmish and just sorta won the day. The admiral and gunnery sergeant (or should I say his drillbeak) certainly proved their worth during the matches.

All the rest of my forces are still being worked on, but I have a 2000 point army lined up to be finished by the end of the month for a 2v2 and 2000 points per person tourney.

They are looking awesome. Great job!

Thanks Bottle! Pretty much now just dedicating my free time towards painting more for the month, ha!

The gold on the weapons is a great idea, looks awesome with that color scheme.

That reminds me of a funny storey. I was versing ironjawz in a skirmish and got the warboss down to 1 wound with the admiral. He then went on to charge my sergeant and the drill-beak nailed him, won me the day.

The drill beak killed about 9 models by itself. The admiral killed more or less 90% of the rest.

Also thanks! The gold was a bit of a debate on my end, but I wasn't using that much of the color and I thought silver gloves with silver weapons would be weird. 10 man company squads all with golden swords and gun barrels is really striking though. You can pick out easily all the blades before being able to distinguish different models.

Just a quick WIP from myself today. As I shape up for a tournament in September (Blackout) I have 3 Endrinriggers of my own almost done. Gone for a unqiue scheme in that there is hardly any metallics, it's in a futuristic space grey with red stripes and is up to the eyeballs in battle damage. What do you all think?

Its hard to form an opinion when they aren't painted yet!


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(jk they look great)

To make a specific suggestion, I think even a little work with hobby knife to add cuts & dents before painting would add a lot of definition, especially for the rusted gaps and corner cuts.

Indeed. Those are some interesting bases you used, but I'd definitely call that modeling for advantage, Bottle. Shame one you

I knew a mainly matt scheme would look great on the Overlords - really great work on them.

@ mmzero252 & Bottle

My god your Overlords are awesome!

 Bottle wrote:
Gone for a unqiue scheme in that there is hardly any metallics, it's in a futuristic space grey with red stripes and is up to the eyeballs in battle damage. What do you all think?

Looks like your image doesn't allow hotlinking or something? Is here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHNvigrXkAEG3FV?format=jpg&name=large

Annnnnd holy crap do they look good

- Salvage

Those look like 19th century Russians. In Imperial Russia, Ball Oon Flies You!

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys!

They'll be finished this weekend and I'll get some completed pics up on here. After that it's trying to do 30 Handgunners before September 2nd. Eek!

Wow Bottle, they look amazing. To be honest they're the first Kharadrons I find pretty. What grey is that?

The red stripes with battle damage is fantastic too.

I'm very impressed, well done. Can't wait to see a ship with that painting level.

Really loving the non-metallic theme. Excellent stuff.

Very cool, Bottle.
Did you freehand all those little icon thingies?

Haechi wrote:Wow Bottle, they look amazing. To be honest they're the first Kharadrons I find pretty. What grey is that?

The red stripes with battle damage is fantastic too.

I'm very impressed, well done. Can't wait to see a ship with that painting level.

Thanks bro (and great to see you back here!) the grey is one coat of Administratum Grey over white undercoat, washed with a 3:1 mix of Lahmian Medium and Agrax Earthshade and then immediately highlighted with Ulthan Grey.

privateer4hire wrote:Very cool, Bottle.
Did you freehand all those little icon thingies?

Nope. I could never pull off such freehand! It's all from the Blood Bowl Dwarg Giant transfer sheet which I highly recommend. :-)

Good deal. Thanks for the tip.

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Update! Look at the most manly golden mustaches. A skyport that feels wealth is the key to good offensive and defensive power...therefore clearly golden "facial hair" is the key to might.

Finished these guys early last week. Need to pick up some Hunters to paint.

Love seeing the Kharadron!

They look so beautiful painted, but I'm scared off because they look so detailed too. Are they a chore?

They could be if you decide to paint and highlight on every single detail. The models have a LOT of detail on them. However even the GW painted minis don't have that detail of effort on them.

 Jjohnso11 wrote:
Finished these guys early last week. Need to pick up some Hunters to paint.

I neeeeeeeed some!!! I was going to buy a bunch when they first came out, but got distracted by other things. Those look awesome!

Thank you. I picked them up to paint without any intention of starting an army and I enjoyed painting them so much I am actually going to start a Wood Elf/Sylvaneth army.

I might my first thread over in the creative area of Dakka for this project...

Im happy with the skin tone, but I feel like I need to work on the bronze more.

Going to the AoS event at warhmmer world next weekend. Currently in panic mode - my original army was made and getting painted, but after some test games it was clear I was never going to get games finished in the time available or remember all the abilities etc. Last minute decision to do another smaller easier army with less funky abilities (that I won't forget about or spend long thinking about).

Half done half still on the sprue. 1 week to go :(

It's really lovely Bottle. Do you mind if I try it on a Stormcast to see how it would look like?

Crosspost from plog (don't go there looking for more AoS, however)

 Bobthehero wrote:
I have painted things, finally, not 40k stuff, but hey its Warhammer, right?

None of them are done, but there's a chance I'll finish the Wight King this week-end. so here goes.

Spoiler:

Friend of mine did the cloak. The big thing left is the face, and I am thinking of making it look like the Wight still has rotten skin left, rather than painting a pure bony face. I went for a Blood Dragon styled armor, leaving the mail and the sword clean and well kept.

Next model is my Count's Champion, went for a Carroburg Greatsword scheme, I am only missing a black metallic paint to finish the armor he'll be done.

Spoiler:

I am a lot more pleased with the fur of the cloak, especially compared to the one on the Wight King, which I kinda messed up. The green on the laurel crown was delibaretly made this way to look faded and worn out.

Gencon haul

My little squad of dorf heroes


The Ironclad, Gunhaulers, and the Endrinriggers


My Thunderers...sadly they will just be shelved now.



And the general theme of my Arkanaut Companies

All of this made up 2000 points for a tournament I played today, sadly a combination of bad rolls and a bad partner cost us everything real fast.

OH WOW. Great minis there everyone. Man I have missed a lot. Beautiful job there mmzero. Beauty jobs on the minis.

Nice work painting all that zero! The bronze looks really good on the ship hulls.

Thanks all. They're not 100%, but they're probably as far as I'm going to go for a long while. Local meta is probably forcing me to put them on a shelf until I move, but I can rest easier knowing they're basically 99% completed in terms of assembly and painting.

I really did like how the bronze-y effect turned out alongside the gold weapons and the red accents.

The Overlords displayed as a painted army look fantastic. As I wrote before, I love the look, just not sure I'm up for the challenge. The amount of area to cover just for basecoats on the ships looks immense, forget about highlighting etc.

Yeah those ones there are entirely unhighlighted. You can't tell, but I also haven't added the little runes to the boats or their shoulder pads. It can be a lot of work, but damn do they look great on a table or in a display case.

I'm hoping my skaven look that good when they're done though. Skaven was honestly my true passion project army, I just got side tracked by other things thinking their rules were far too outdated (which was wrong..and even more wrong now).

I absolutely love them. The red on the gunhauler could use another shade (although it might just be the lighting), but that blue glow is amazing! Well done!

I actually have no idea why the one is so much more red, ha! It did help to say which one had the fancy artifact though.

 Haechi wrote:
It's really lovely Bottle. Do you mind if I try it on a Stormcast to see how it would look like?

Just saw this, but yes, go for it! :-)

Some good looking stuff on here. Plenty of inspiration!

At the moment I'm working on getting my Start Collecting Iron Jawz done. Calling them "Conga da Ice Chompa's Fist".

Also working on rebasing my Khorne units from AoS starter set, giving them a pirate theme.

Khorne pirates? That's an amazing idea.

" Aaarg! Prepare the sails ye cretinous demon dogs! Make the sacrifices ready and summon forth the bloodtide to carry us into battle. Ready the boarding ladders and get the bone sand, there's going to be lots of Blood!"

Cheers haha, think they'll make a nice looking bunch of corsairs and raiders when they are done. Hoping to find some decent scale boats to go with them at some point. Will also be adding some Skaven to the mix and some beast men, want a motley crew of chaos filth (plus the idea of skaven being forced to carry ships across dry land amuses me).

As for the Orks, got the first 5 Ardboys done and the Warchanter!

Quick question re photos, do people prefer from camera or touched up a little?

I like that Ardboys banner!

Finished my Greatsword champion, not quite sure what to do for the base now.

Have you got any backstory for your guys like where they are from?

He kinda reminds me of the Black Knight from Python, maybe try a wood themed base? Or a grassy planes base?

He looks awesome!

Maybe a silver tower base with dead tzaangor bits to play off this artwork?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/00/0d/60/000d607ccb08f32c6e7f1329dc64e8a4.jpg

Thanks for the feedback

As for the base, none of my other armies are going to have grassy/wood bases, so yeah, that'd fit well and I could sprinkle the bases with dead enemies, tzaangors could work because I've had models with dead Orks and skeleton bits.

Excellent, nothing like the Dark Souls experience of dead enemies sticking to you everywhere you go.

Going to a tournment today, tomorrow and sunday (3 days of AoS!) so needed to kick myself up the backside and finally get these done:

Prepping my nurgle forces for Path to Glory before finishing up Azyr Empires 2nd edition for 2018.

Nice! Looking awesome man

Thanks next up are my blight kings and then I want to add some warriors of chaos into the mix.

 Bottle wrote:
Going to a tournment today, tomorrow and sunday (3 days of AoS!) so needed to kick myself up the backside and finally get these done:

Spoiler:

These look great, Bottle.

The red stripe really sells them.

Kanluwen wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Going to a tournment today, tomorrow and sunday (3 days of AoS!) so needed to kick myself up the backside and finally get these done:

Spoiler:

These look great, Bottle.

The red stripe really sells them.

Thank a lot Kan, glad you like them!

auticus wrote:Thanks next up are my blight kings and then I want to add some warriors of chaos into the mix.

Awesome, can't wait to see the Blightkings as I will be working on some this month too!

Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Those look great!

What's the story on the white armor? Clan significance, use of cloud cover, following ice storms left behind by Beastclaw raiders?

Anyway, good luck in your tourneys!

Baron Klatz wrote:
Those look great!

What's the story on the white armor? Clan significance, use of cloud cover, following ice storms left behind by Beastclaw raiders?

Anyway, good luck in your tourneys!

Thanks BK! They are a Grundstock Mercenary outfit that sells their services to the Free Cities which is why they don't wear the colours of a known Skyport and instead have a more military look. They won't ever be a whole army but a growing contingent in my larger Freeguild/Mixed Order army.

And the tournament is going well. Won Best Painted on the Friday Skirimish event with my Bloodbound (up against Ben Johnson's incredible Stormcast of White Dwarf fame, so really happy to get that).

Right now I am half way through the main event, sitting on 2 Major Wins and 1 Major Loss (wow, Murder Host is brutal). These Endrinriggers were the MVP in the first game and I pulled off the one thing I dreamed of doing with them. Total Conquest, I am getting beaten by a Tzeentch army but holding onto my objectives. They move off one of theirs for the killing blow, but before it is delivered the Endrinriggers grapnel hooks onto a bit of terrain and zips them onto a back objective scoring me 2 VPs that got me the win! Super happy with them!

They look much better painted! I agree that the white/red are good color choices, it gives a very realistic amanita muscaria look that contrasts well with the static grass.

Haha, that win is epic!

Any chance you could tell me the enemy your endrinrigger dodged? I'd like to make a sketch of that.

Also, cool to hear their mercenary angle. I'm going for a similar thing but as a royal balloon corps hired by my kingdom.

I finished up a unit of plague monks and a plague priest to accompany them.



The pics really don't do the models justice (I didn't have the correct lights with me when I took the photo), so I'll try and get some better pics tomorrow.

I have been caught up with 40k and 30k of late, but I haven't been completely useless - managed to get Neave Blacktalon done last night!

It's been a while since I worked on my Skeleton army, but now that I've got another tournament coming up, I found the necessary motivation to finally put my copy of SC: Skeleton Horde together. One could question whether or not that's such a good idea, as the reason I stopped working on them in the first place was being horrendously defeated in a tournament.

Oh well. You live and you learn, right?

Anyways, I decided to run my skeletons as Tomb Kings this time, with a Tomb King on Exalted Chariot as my General. Problem was, I didn't have a model for him yet, and the Mortarch model didn't feel appropriate for the job (and it's ridiculously complicated to put together), so I had to improvise a little...

Behold, the Grand Hierarch of the Forgotten Tombs!







What do you all think? Is this an appropriate stand-in for Not-Settra?

Hah! Sweet idea dude!

I am putting together a Game of Thrones Night's King themed Beastclaw Raiders army and wanted to try out the theme on some Ogre Gutbusters I have been using for our home D&D game.

All Ogors in the list will be painted like White Walkers and I am using the Vampire Counts undead looking Dire Wolves to look like resurrected Frost Sabers. I am considering using Tyranid Gargoyles (without the blasters of course) as resurrected Blood Vultures.

Here are a couple quick shots of the Gutbusters just to test out the theme.

I love it Pensfan. Looking forward to more. Great ideas. Please post them.

Been working on these guys for a while, but finally finished the horse version this week. I call this "The Stages of Archaon".



Some closer angles on this guys. First, the rare on-foot version:


Next, Archaon the Everchosen (on horseback)



Finally, Archaon: Grand High Marshall of the Apocalypse

Oh, that's neat to see the progression. Is it odd to like archaon on foot best? he seems just seems so solid and unyielding there.

Saw the Blightwar set at FGS this weekend but the only thing I'm interested in was the Neave character. Since that model's running $35 or so on ebay and I don't want the boxed set, I'm coverting a proxy using an extra liberator and vanguard hunter bits.

Just finished up a Lord Relictor for my small skirmish force, replacing the head with a bare Space Marine one and a less over-the-top relic from the top of a Grey Knights banner pole.

Nice work on both the head and the hourglass! And that's a great idea for the banner thing; the original is way too big and spiky for my tastes, i might look around for something similar

Thanks! I'm not as happy with the sand in the hourglass, but I do like how I was able to get a good glass effect by just brushing on some Vallejo Gloss Varnish.

I just didn't like how the original relic on his staff was as large as he was!

Sweet models, AegisGrimm, EnTyme and Pensfan!

I've been working on my Vampire Counts-gone-Tomb-Kings army some more, in an attempt to get everything ready for the tournament next Saturday. So far, I've finished up 5 more Skeleton Warriors (with some help from the girlfriend), and built the 10 other Skeleton Warriors I needed to fill out the unit. Forgot to take pictures of the undead buggers, though

Also, I've been playing around with the contents of the Thunder & Blood starter box that recently came into my possession, trying figure out what I want to do with the lot. I've decided to use the Chaos half to bulk out my Hosts of Slaanesh army, and to create a small warband for AOS Skirmish. The Skirmish warband will consist of a couple of Chaos Warriors and some Marauders, all converted to fit the warband's fluff (which I'm still working out).

Here's a pic of one of the first members of the warband, a converted Chaos Warrior:



The inspiration for this conversion came from the lovely fellows at Wargamers' Workbench, who have created some awesome Nurgle Chaos Warriors out of the Blood Warriors. However, they did commit foul heresy by not including the Warriors' fancy capes (I don't blame them, though; attaching the cape to the body was a bloody nightmare), but I'm sure Nurgle will be able to forgive them for that

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
Sweet models, AegisGrimm, EnTyme and Pensfan!

I've been working on my Vampire Counts-gone-Tomb-Kings army some more, in an attempt to get everything ready for the tournament next Saturday. So far, I've finished up 5 more Skeleton Warriors (with some help from the girlfriend), and built the 10 other Skeleton Warriors I needed to fill out the unit. Forgot to take pictures of the undead buggers, though

Also, I've been playing around with the contents of the Thunder & Blood starter box that recently came into my possession, trying figure out what I want to do with the lot. I've decided to use the Chaos half to bulk out my Hosts of Slaanesh army, and to create a small warband for AOS Skirmish. The Skirmish warband will consist of a couple of Chaos Warriors and some Marauders, all converted to fit the warband's fluff (which I'm still working out).

Here's a pic of one of the first members of the warband, a converted Chaos Warrior:



The inspiration for this conversion came from the lovely fellows at Wargamers' Workbench, who have created some awesome Nurgle Chaos Warriors out of the Blood Warriors. However, they did commit foul heresy by not including the Warriors' fancy capes (I don't blame them, though; attaching the cape to the body was a bloody nightmare), but I'm sure Nurgle will be able to forgive them for that

Good job on that kitbash.

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
Sweet models, AegisGrimm, EnTyme and Pensfan!

I've been working on my Vampire Counts-gone-Tomb-Kings army some more, in an attempt to get everything ready for the tournament next Saturday. So far, I've finished up 5 more Skeleton Warriors (with some help from the girlfriend), and built the 10 other Skeleton Warriors I needed to fill out the unit. Forgot to take pictures of the undead buggers, though

Also, I've been playing around with the contents of the Thunder & Blood starter box that recently came into my possession, trying figure out what I want to do with the lot. I've decided to use the Chaos half to bulk out my Hosts of Slaanesh army, and to create a small warband for AOS Skirmish. The Skirmish warband will consist of a couple of Chaos Warriors and some Marauders, all converted to fit the warband's fluff (which I'm still working out).

Here's a pic of one of the first members of the warband, a converted Chaos Warrior:

Spoiler:

The inspiration for this conversion came from the lovely fellows at Wargamers' Workbench, who have created some awesome Nurgle Chaos Warriors out of the Blood Warriors. However, they did commit foul heresy by not including the Warriors' fancy capes (I don't blame them, though; attaching the cape to the body was a bloody nightmare), but I'm sure Nurgle will be able to forgive them for that

Nice work, having dealt with similar conversions before I can appreciate how much work goes into fitting that cloak on there! But you are right, it would have been foul heresy to leave it off.

Managed to get a basic TT paintjob on the black coach conversion at last.

Picked up an old Great Taurus for my beast woman army. I kind of went to town with the green stuff. I hope to have it painted before the end of the week.




I have also been working on this since before the second edition book dropped. It was going to be a stand in for Gorthor the Beastlord. Sadly Gorthor became the generic Beastlord on Chariot, which would have been fine except that they took away the brayherd keyword. So the majority of the time this model is on the table top it will probably just be a standard beastman chariot. Needless to say this one is going to take a bit longer to get painted.

Fantastic conversions and green stuff work. Looking forward to seeing them painted

Neville Blackthorn (because I'm not paying $35 for a single figure or buying the whole Blightwar box for just one mini).

He ain't pretty but he'll make a fine Zephyros or whatever they're called

I decided my grey seer looked a little boring, so I built him a new sword:



Thoughts?

That looks very Skaven-esque. And nasty. Very nasty.

So, did everyone else get an army's worth of infantry painted this weekend?

The Kharadorn Overlords have well and truly arrived in my Mortal Realms, with 30 Arkanauts and 30 Thunderers:



Arkanuats:


Thunderers:


I didn't think those models were quite enough though, so I popped in some Nurglings too

You're insane.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
You're insane.

Don't think so. I haven't started talking to my miniatures yet.

(though sometimes, they do talk to me...).

GW releases a box of cheap Battle Wizards, I go a bit mad...


Of course, I need to get another box and do one for the other four Winds of Magic at some point...

Those are brilliant Para, especially the marble one!

Those wizards...and Overlords...awesome.

 Venerable Ironclad wrote:
I have also been working on this since before the second edition book dropped. It was going to be a stand in for Gorthor the Beastlord. Sadly Gorthor became the generic Beastlord on Chariot, which would have been fine except that they took away the brayherd keyword. So the majority of the time this model is on the table top it will probably just be a standard beastman chariot. Needless to say this one is going to take a bit longer to get painted.

Exalt! That is one hell of a chariot

Would be interested in seeing more of your beastwomen army

- Salvage

I finally got my Overlords. One of each ship, a troops, a grundstock, skywarden, admiral, and navigator. I'll get to work modelling these next month and have them ready to paint over Canadian winter.

Now to plan out my Barak Mhornar theme. Mostly the metals on the ship's hull I need to consider as well as their underside pattern I am going to paint on. I think the classic vertical striped look would go best with the raiders of this barark but now I'm trying to think what colours would compliment their existing ones shown in the book.

Hmmm decisions decisions.

Good news, I have the Great Taurus finished. I love getting old models onto the table.





Still gonna be a while for the chariot, but if you want to see any more of my stuff, I have it all at my deviant art page at:

https://southpawstudio.deviantart.com/gallery/

A whole starter force like Mongoose? Uhhh, no. I have 2 kids under 3 years old, so I was thoroughly pleased to paint a single Retributor. It's taken me over three months to paint a 'skirmish' force of 11 Stormcast models. Here's the previous 10:

 Venerable Ironclad wrote:
https://southpawstudio.deviantart.com/gallery/

Thanks for the link, and impressive turn around on the Taurus, she looks great. Also sweet hell this dreadnought posse

- Salvage

Hey, at least they look great Aegis. And you're not alone, Matt is crazy fast at painting, so I wouldn't feel bad for it

 Paradigm wrote:
GW releases a box of cheap Battle Wizards, I go a bit mad...

Spoiler:

Of course, I need to get another box and do one for the other four Winds of Magic at some point...

These are fantastic! Some of my favourites of your work.

. . . I'm gonna have to stop posting in this thread. Every time I do, three people remind me just how much better at this they are than I am

Repurposing a great taurus for AoS is a great idea. Looks awesome bro.

MongooseMatt wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
You're insane.

Don't think so. I haven't started talking to my miniatures yet.

(though sometimes, they do talk to me...).

I talk to mine all the time. Especially when their superglue refuses to set.

Hello,

So i have been playing 40k for a couple of years, but Fantasy have always interested me. And especially Skaven after i read their Codex. Man i love those rats, and the fluff is amazing.

I don't know much about Age of Sigmar yet, but ill get into it slowly i guess. Anyway. My project is apparently a HUGE Skaven army.

So wouldnt you know it. A store who were selling figures shut down near me. So a lot of stuff were on sale with great prices and i bought a few Skaven boxes for about 150 dollars or a bit over maybe. And when i say good prices, i mean seriously good prices!

Some say we shouldn't buy in bulks but i couldnt resist. This is what i got.

Wow! What a score. I hope you're a more prolific painter than I.

Whoa, yeah, that is amazing deal! and a lot of work, i mean, even the island of blood box alone...

 Eldarain wrote:
Wow! What a score. I hope you're a more prolific painter than I.

Well, we could put it to the test, i can upload a picture or two of my first ratmen in my gallery in this weekend. And you can see the standard of my rats

 amazingturtles wrote:
Whoa, yeah, that is amazing deal! and a lot of work, i mean, even the island of blood box alone...

Yea, a lot of work. But i think it will be a lot of fun! And the Island of blood box is only the half. I don't intent to paint the High Elfs, so i will probably sell them.

But theses boxes are a bit old. They come with square bases and not the new round ones. Should i try to aquire round bases or should i just keep the square ones? What do you think. Will it cause truble?

 Warboss ZanZag wrote:


But theses boxes are a bit old. They come with square bases and not the new round ones. Should i try to aquire round bases or should i just keep the square ones? What do you think. Will it cause truble?

Unless your gaming group has a restriction on square bases, that's really more of a personal preference. I don't care for square/rectangles, so I always go out of my way to rebase on rounds, but that's just me. Plus I somehow ended up with around 100 spare 25mm-40mm bases at one point, so I have plenty to use.

You should go to the rounds. It affects how many models can get into melee range over a given area, so you could have an advantage since the squares have a smaller footprint.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
You should go to the rounds. It affects how many models can get into melee range over a given area, so you could have an advantage since the squares have a smaller footprint.

Aye, squares have an advantage over rounds, in addition to rounds just looking better in AOS. Rounds just make sense, especially when starting a new army so you don't need to rip off old bases or anything like that.

- Salvage

Seems everyone is for round bases. Then i gotta get some round bases. I did always like the regiment look they had with square bases

And you are probably right, better that i round base them now, as i just started up. Less problems later if anyone have a problem with it.

I won't be surprised if measuring to the base becomes the official rule rather than a "suggested house rule". If that happens, rounds will be the standard. As long as you have access to them, that's the way I would go.

I've been working on my Slaves to Darkness Skirmish warband some more, although progress is rather slow due to the large amount of cutting needed to make everything fit. Today I worked on the warband's leader, the Dread Marshal (working title).



In Skirmish games, I'll be running him as Not-Slambo, if my opponent permits it, of course. I'm not sure what to do with his torso though; should I leave the Khorne rune as it is, or should I replace it with something less god-specific?

I also made some progress on the second Chaos Warrior, and on the Khorgorath:

I don't know why I can't just leave a model alone..but uh..have a coming together zombie dragon..covered in plant life..on a tree. Local game store is having a monster mash themed free for all near halloween so I thought it was the perfect time to finish off my Sylvaneth army with their, intended from the beginning, centerpiece model. Then I can get back to my backlog again..hopefully.









Enjoy! This one should be finished up easily enough once the friggin base comes in. I have plaaans for it..and maybe some of the 60 dryads I don't actually need.

Quick edit: As per usual, comments, critiques, suggestions, etc etc all adored <3

A friend is doing Hammers of Sigmar, so I got the honour of painting the first female Stormcast (and I was able to enter this month's painting contest to boot!):

That is an excellent job on Neave. Well done.

Ace paint job on Neave! The head & hair has crazy detail.

Thank you for the kind words

I love the hair - is that on the box art? It looks so much more interesting than just plain black. Good job!

These have been sitting in my plastic pile for nearly two years now - finally finished off some more Thunderscorn.

Regular Dragon Ogors


And a Shaggoth

Awesome job there, MM. The Dragon Ogres have always been one of the most unique things about GW's fantasy game. I'm surprised they never bothered fleshing out that model line a little more.

Finally finished Alarielle. Not sure why, but one of the pictures didn't upload. I'll try again later.







*edit* added the rear view

Nice work Mongoosematt and EnTyme!

I've been working on my Skirmish warband some more, I managed to put 4 of the 5 converted Chaos Warriors together, and figured out what I'm going to do with the last one.

Here's a group shot of the 4 Chaos Warriors and their boss:



And here's a closer pic of the leader, who got himself a new head. I'm not sure if it's better than the helmet I gave him previously, though... although this one does shout "evil angry viking" more

Blight Kings project complete. Using some in Path to Glory. Next up some nurgle chaos knights!

You did good their Auticus. I was eating breakfast while looking at your pics and I almost gagged. Your minis are that good to gross me out while eating.

Now I hope I can recreate what you did.

It's not a good Nurgle paint job unless you can almost smell it. Outstanding work, Auticus.

Waiting for the Shadespire Skellies to go up for pre-order, so I painted this chap to get in the Deathy mood.

Thanks. THey were pretty disgusting

That wight looks great

Really cool king wish I could have him lead my army!

Finally finished the Grand Cultivator himself, Horticulous!

How big is that model roughly? I've never been able to get a good sense from the images and no one around me has one. I love the snail/thing used as the mount, its the kind of thing I think of when I envision nurgle monsters.

Geeze it must be well over a year since I've posted around here, Uni has been eating up all of my hobby time but I've managed some painting recently, and more importantly I borrowed a camera to get some good pics.

My most recent project:


I think I screwed up the blade itself, and the face could be better, but otherwise am really happy with him.

Prior to him came this guy:



Another which is older at this point but I don't think I've shared here and these are new pics so enjoy

Lukeovich wrote:
How big is that model roughly? I've never been able to get a good sense from the images and no one around me has one. I love the snail/thing used as the mount, its the kind of thing I think of when I envision nurgle monsters.

Dude on the back is the same size as a normal HoN, if that helps.

Standard colour scheme, I know... But not my main faction anyway and I did like painting polished gold.... Not something I paint very often.

Been working on Angharad- in Knights of the Aurora stormhost colours . Just the base to do and a few highlights.

Three times the charm they say. So here's my Angharad.

Looks good, I like the red! But did you REALLY need to paint her torso like that?

The torso thing - super cool idea

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Looks good, I like the red! But did you REALLY need to paint her torso like that?

When they first showed her off, I told myself: "If I ever get my hands on that model, I'm going to paint her abs." And so I did.

But I also snipped off her high heels if that counts for anything.

Just ordered some bits to convert the SCE from Shadespire (they'll have axes instead of hammers!) and finished building my Sylvaneth starter box... Gunna prime them soon and paint them up to look burnt/on fire/charcoal!

I took some pictures in the lightbox today, only to realise most of them had a slightly out of focus front model... But still, I did make progress and finished the starterset!





And some better shots of steelheart's group too:

Very nice! What's your recipe for that soft gold on the Stormcast?

Those Stormcast look ACE. Really well done Elmir!

 Paradigm wrote:
Very nice! What's your recipe for that soft gold on the Stormcast?

It starts off with a basecoat of retributor armor mixed with about 50% vallejo model air tank brown (any dark brown should do though). I airbushed that one, but you really need a large-ish nozzle and good thinning to airbrush GW metallics.

Then zenithal highlight of pure Retributor armor, followed by a mix of retributor armor and silver (same applies for big nozzle and adequate thinning.

It's all given a coat of Armypainter quickshade strong tone.

Then a layer of dullcote, followed by an edge highlight of pure silver and some micro-sratches here and there.

Little bit of Shadespire goodness, even though I've yet to play a game.




I don't feel like he's done yet, but he's at least to tabletop standard.

Some kingdom death that I can put into AOS as well. First crack at OSL.

Really nice job!

Does the floor of faces make him a Slaanesh worshipper since they keep their beauty and it goes against Khorne's skull carpets?

Also, awesome work on that skeleton leader, Kanluwan.

The eye coloring is very creepy and his cape looks like it's drenched in blood.

Eye-coloring is easy peasy. A drop of Guilliman Glaze in the eye sockets which were left Ceramite White. Let it start dry and kind of 'tease' it out a bit with a toothpick.

The cape might need a rework if it looks blood soaked...it's meant to be a purple that's faded over time.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Eye-coloring is easy peasy. A drop of Guilliman Glaze in the eye sockets which were left Ceramite White. Let it start dry and kind of 'tease' it out a bit with a toothpick.

The cape might need a rework if it looks blood soaked...it's meant to be a purple that's faded over time.

If you're looking for faded purple, I would suggest a gradient into a pale pink (something like Fulgrim Pink) and fading into a fleshy color like Kislev Flesh.

 EnTyme wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Eye-coloring is easy peasy. A drop of Guilliman Glaze in the eye sockets which were left Ceramite White. Let it start dry and kind of 'tease' it out a bit with a toothpick.

The cape might need a rework if it looks blood soaked...it's meant to be a purple that's faded over time.

If you're looking for faded purple, I would suggest a gradient into a pale pink (something like Fulgrim Pink) and fading into a fleshy color like Kislev Flesh.

Irony at its finest:
The cloak is Screamer Pink with edge highlights of Pink Horror. Then washed heavily.

Makes me think my matte varnish and washes might be too heavy.

Washes have a tendency to do weird things with pink. When shading purple and pink, I tend to use good ol' Agrax Earthshade. There results are surprisingly good.

Haha. That's Agrax wash to boot!

I'm actually pretty happy with it though. In person it has a much nicer texture almost going on. Wondering if I shouldn't have "autoadjusted" via Dakka.

I've finally got my second unit of Savage Arrow Boys painted!


I think this completes my collection unless I've missed something.
Planning a proppa set of pictures when I am able.

In the same vein as my last post in here, more Deathy stuff. This time, the Sepulchral Warden from Shadespire. Lovely model, hopefully I've done it justice as I've been wanting to paint one since the first Shadespire reveal.

I just made more Grundstok Thunderers.

this is the thread I look forward to the most, damn, some of you guys can do some amazing things with these models! thanks !

Starting to gear up for Age of Sigmar once more over the holiday break but, for now... the two new warbands for Shadespire.

The Sepulchral Guard:


And some Orruks:

Not model related but our path to glory campaign is winding down and we will be launching full on into Azyr Empires (resource map campaign) next spring keeping the upgrades we won in our path to glory.

Nice!

Campaigns like that are amazing. Good luck to you and hope we can get to read about it.

Finally finished Orghotts Daemonspew, so my Maggoth Lords are now complete!

Holy cow!!

Those are amazing! Great job!


These aren't mine (ha, I wish) but they're really cool conversions I found:

https://pp.userapi.com/c840229/v840229305/48cce/SNXNB6GDP5U.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/7hom2v/firefighting_kharadron_overlords/

Dr. Doom SCE is certainly a cool idea^^

I like them.

Drycha in her autumn war glory. Painted as a present for my girlfriend who plays Sylvaneth.

Been ages since I posted. Painting very slowly. I can't remember, are we allowed to show in work projects as well, or just completed minis?

I don't see why not, a project's a project.

@Auticus,

That looks awesome.

I love the contrast the bugs on her left arm give.

Thanks. I was pretty happy with how the coloration and textures came out too.

My AoS painting seems to have slowed to a crawl (hoping to correct that over Christmas!), but managed to get the Kharadron Heroes done!

@ MongooseMatt

Care to share your method for painting tbose?

 Future War Cultist wrote:
@ MongooseMatt

Care to share your method for painting tbose?

I did a bit of a write up here: https://wordpress.com/post/ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/30559

Hope that helps!

Since then and now, I have also finished some more Skaven (the first enemies the Overlords will face!), including a fun little Warlock Engineer:

Well now we know why they don't have their airship.

Squeek-to-air missile, yes-yes!

Remarkable job, Mongoosematt.

Baron Klatz wrote:
Well now we know why they don't have their airship.

Squeek-to-air missile, yes-yes!

Remarkable job, Mongoosematt.

Rat-bo could do it with just a bow and arrow...just sayin'

Well sure if you want to cheese it with an expert tunnel-rat.

More rats - did me a Thanquol and Boneripper over Christmas!